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In which table does Amazon Cognito data gets saved - Beginner

I used AWS Cognito to authenticate users in my iOS application. The users of the app will have to enter the email, phone number and their name in order to register and Amazon will be sending a SMS to authenticate the phone number.

All of these are working fine. I have few questions and they are :

1.) I want to know where these data are getting saved ? It's not there in the Dynamo DB (However, I found the list of users in AWS Cognito --> Federated Identities --> Users , but not in a Table inDynamoDB)

2.) Now, once the users are authenticated, I am allowing the users to interact with the application. The first task will be that the users will have to complete their profile. I want to know if in case if an user is NOT authenticated will he be able to complete his profile ? Ideally, he should not be allowed. But is this happening automatically ?

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Solution

  • 1) You are correct, data is not stored inside dynamo for user profiles. Cognito has an internal data store in which user data is persisted. This can be viewed and edited (as an admin) through the 'Users' tab of your user pool.

    2) They should not be able to, and it is not happening automatically. The only way to update attributes stored against a user is as an admin (which the user shouldn't be able to do) or with the token that they get from signing in, so what you're aiming for is very do-able.